Fought on an unprecedented scale, in the sky, on the land, and in the water, World War I marked the end of an old military order and the beginning of industrial, mechanized warfare. This is a ...(Read More)

A gripping visual history of World War I that spans the full range of the conflict, this book by the U.S. Army's chief historian Robert Dalessandro and the Secretary of Defense's chief historian Erin ...(Read More)

(Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award) Named by the Modern Library as one of the 20th century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, this landmark 1970 study by ...(Read More)

Born into a Quaker family, Nathanael Greene had nothing in his background that suggested he would have a brilliant military career; until 1775, when he abandoned pacifism, his total military training ...(Read More)

Although the news outlets generally televise the latest airstrikes and invasions, many of the military's most crucial operations involve such meaningful but low-profile functions as civilian ...(Read More)

Based on the premise that firearms may be considered a weapon, a tool, a historical artifact, or an object of beauty, this overview of half a millennium of guns singles out 100 for special ...(Read More)

Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. ...(Read More)

The year 2009 marked the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to find a northeastern passage over ...(Read More)

In 1066 the most significant battle on English soil—and arguably the most important in British history—took place some six miles northwest of Hastings. Anglo-Saxon king Harold II was killed on the ...(Read More)